tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19837111543818778342016-12-04T05:20:52.303+11:00medicowannabemedicowannabenoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983711154381877834.post-85743453160171146162011-05-04T17:03:00.008+10:002011-07-04T23:46:40.901+10:00World medicine rankings outQS, whose rankings were previously associated with Times Higher Education until the latter partnered with Thomson Reuters two years ago, has released its world university rankings on Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology (this might not be obvious but Life Sciences was broken down into these three, each with their own rankings). By the end of this May, QS will have released rankings for 33medicowannabenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983711154381877834.post-59756380588785960252011-04-26T00:58:00.019+10:002011-05-07T22:08:49.445+10:00Divorce dying wife if want stay, rural doctor told.Philippines-born Dr Cesar Sofocado has been helping out with the doctor shortage in rural Western Australia since 2005. Now, the dad of two young daughters has been told to divorce his dying wife if he wants to stay. Mary has advance breast cancer and says she will only seek palliative care to not burden the state's coffers. Upon learning her condition, immigration told him to apply for a visa medicowannabenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983711154381877834.post-38353856953041934922011-04-22T06:06:00.015+10:002011-04-24T09:30:35.542+10:00Emergency doctor misleads jury to protect colleagueAn emergency medicine specialist at the Canberra Hospital admitted he had "slightly misled" the jury to protect a colleague from criticism. The doctor had previously said the patient was medically dead when he asked an emergency registrar to perform an emergency thoracotomy, which is an incision of the chest cavity to allow access to organs like the heart. This is amidst a fatal stabbing trial medicowannabenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983711154381877834.post-5570477597390377662011-04-18T03:06:00.036+10:002011-04-19T11:32:15.728+10:00MD? You're a Doctor of Medicine!Doctor dream at a nightmare $230,000 from The Sunday Age quotes Brigid Wolf saying, "Nearly a quarter of a million dollars for a 21-year-old is a lot of money to think about going into debt for. Who wants to have a mortgage by the time they turn 25 without a house?"
Ms Wolf is one of 55 domestic full-fee paying medico wannabes enrolled in the new Doctor of Medicine (MD) at Melbourne Uni medicowannabenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983711154381877834.post-3788617723103504962011-04-15T21:46:00.021+10:002011-05-07T22:09:18.138+10:00defence doctor: toxic cultureCaptain Julian Fidge (pictured) is a defence doctor in the Army Reserve and has faced more than 12 charges of insubordination. This medical officer is also on suspension for exposing that "a toxic culture of denigration of and discrimination against" health professionals in the Australian Defence Force."your rank is not a real thing""Health support specialists are barely tolerated and often medicowannabenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983711154381877834.post-77328355102922409112011-04-14T16:39:00.006+10:002011-04-18T15:13:11.839+10:00To dissect or notI have always had a huge interest in anatomy and I would love to get my hands dirty and dissect (former) donors to science. Anatomy of a dissection debate from today's SMH is a good, longish feature that talks about the different opinions on dissection in med schools. I wonder how many schools still offer dissections as opposed to just prosections (viewing anatomy structures dissected by others) medicowannabenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983711154381877834.post-38191957110657225952011-04-14T13:19:00.000+10:002011-04-16T05:35:15.834+10:00Sydney Uni to ditch ACER application consortiumSydney med school will only be accepting applications directly starting this year for 2012 commencement. This means they will be conducting their own interviews and not be part of the three-preferences ACER application. This doesn't mean they will be ditching GAMSAT for the test results. Why? The school's dean Professor Robinson says ACER doesn't give them enough information to choose the most medicowannabenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983711154381877834.post-35549520795343320712011-04-12T21:11:00.013+10:002011-04-26T20:55:31.941+10:00Cuts to medical research?Today thousands turned out to rally against the speculated cuts of up to $400m to medical research. Well you know where I stand. Often what doctors can do is limited by advances on the bench. Think penicillin.
For all we know, breaththroughs that can change millions of lives are just around the corner. Professor Sharon Lewin reckons a cure for AIDS will be found by 2020 (smh).
More funding is medicowannabenoreply@blogger.com0